Category: Investing

Goodbye “Hello Kitty”

At age 36, Hello Kitty may be running out of product lives.

That is the fear of executives at the Sanrio Corporation, the Japanese company that created the cute, cartoonish white cat in 1974, and groomed her into a global marketing phenomenon worth $5 billion a year.

In Japan and around the world, Hello Kitty has been licensed over the years for products that include dolls, clothes, lunch boxes, stationery, kitchenware, a Macy’s parade balloon and even an Airbus owned by Taiwanese airline EVA Airways.

Fujitsu, High Level Japanese Corporate Mysteries Continue

By global standards, Japanese companies are seen as taking an idiosyncratic approach to corporate governance.

But even by Japanese standards, a several high-level management changes at the technology giant Fujitsu have struck analysts and management specialists as unusual.

By global standards, Japanese companies are seen as taking an idiosyncratic approach to corporate governance.

Chief SEC Investigator Could Lose Quarter-Million in Deutsche Bank Inquiry

The SEC’s Director of Investigations Robert Khuzami recently recused himself from pursuing an investigation against Deutsche Bank in regard to potential CDO malfeasance.

The SEC’s Director of Investigations Robert Khuzami recently recused himself from pursuing an investigation against Deutsche Bank in regard to potential CDO malfeasance.

CNBC: Gold ATM Debuts in Abu Dhabi Luxury Hotel – EN ESPANOL !!!

Well, no one seems to be able to resist THIS story, and that includes our friend / colleague / and devoted reader Sr. Dr. Claudio Pairoba from Rosario, Argentina,

because we just received his excellent translation into Spanish [br]

CNBC: Gold ATM Debuts in Abu Dhabi Luxury Hotel

Amid fears over the strength of nearly every major currency, Abu Dhabi’s top hotel has come up with a new type of ATM for their most risk-averse guests.

The Emirates Palace is giving those staying there the chance to withdraw gold from the world first ever gold dispenser.[br]

BP / Halliburton / Transocean / Cameron All Under Fire for Oil Disaster

As Congress prepares to hold hearings into the April 20 explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a billion-dollar question is bobbing on the oil-slicked waves: Whose fault is it?

So far, BP, the British company that leased the deepwater rig, has commanded the spotlight. 

Korea in Ongoing Uproar Over Book on Samsung – EN ESPANOL ;-) !!!

Well, things are continuing to move along nicely in Rosario, Argentina, where our friend / colleague / and clearly devoted reader Sr. Dr. Claudio Pairoba lives,

Well, things are continuing to move along nicely in Rosario, Argentina, where our friend / colleague / and clearly devoted reader Sr. Dr. Claudio Pairoba lives,

One-Man Company Now Controls US “Live Events” AND Ticketing

Irving Azoff is arguably the most powerful man in the history of American pop music.

On January 25, the Justice Department blessed a merger between Ticketmaster, the ticketing giant led by Mr. Azoff since 2008, and Live Nation, the world’s largest concert promotion company.